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A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.comTue, 15 Nov 2016 00:51:25 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5By: The Ridgerhttp://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-114216
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:18:54 +0000http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=215#comment-114216All you have to do is look at the cultures in languages that have no grammatical gender to realize that they aren’t egalitarian – often, in fact, extremely repressive.

I’m also fond of the system which calls declensions 1st, 2nd, and 3rd…

]]>By: leonard c.http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-107840
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:20:38 +0000http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=215#comment-107840Dear Dr Goodwood,
It makes me sad to think people cannot differentiate between the concepts of linguistic gender and sex. The two are not necessarily related, e.g. German das Mädchen (the girl) is of the neuter gender. The idea that because a language inflects words for gender agreement makes it inherently sexist, is frankly, idiotic. PS, great blog!
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Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:48:19 +0000http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=215#comment-106820Just a side note: Nahuatl would seemingly be a politically correct person’s dream. Although there are a good many useful morphemes in the language, there is no grammatical distinction between genders (even in pronouns). There is also no distinction between “brother” and “sister”–you have to say “woman sibling” if there is a need to specify (e.g. noikni means “my brother/sister,” add siua- [woman] to make nosiuaikni, “my sister”). Quite a contrast from Spanish!
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